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Every year Microsoft holds several 'Unplugged' events which are usually two free half day presentations on their new software. I have been to several of these events and they are quite good with presentations given by knowledgeable people within Microsoft and it is a great opertunity to ask questions and make contacts along with getting a heads up on the latest developments. They are free to attend, you just have to register your name with an email address. This march the events are focused on Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 held the first and second half of the day respectivly. Session 1: What's new for IT Professionals in Office 2010 8:45am - 10:30am Morning Tea Break 10:30am - 11:00am Session 2: SharePoint 2010 Overview 11:00am - 12:30pm Wellington: 2 March - Intercontinental Hotel Wellington Christchurch: 3 March - Christchurch Convention Centre Dunedin: 4 March - Scenic Circle Southern Cross Auckland: 9 March - SkyCity Convention Centre Hamilton: 10 March - SkyCity Hamilton Full details and links to register can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/nz/events/unplugged/technet-mar10.mspx I will probably be attending the Auckland one if I can make it and hope to see some other schools represented there too. http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/5129/nz/events/images/unplugged/header.gif

Evening All, For those of you who may not have access to Partner Network Briefings, or if you do and did not have chance to attend the recent events then you can download the Slide Decks & Watch the Opening Plenary if you so wish and maybe some of you will find this helpful. Slide Decks / Information:- https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/uk/Pages/Training/partner-business-briefings.aspx London Plenary Session (Recording) :- CCDM Welcome (Microsoft Partner Business Briefing Autumn 2012) - YouTube :-) James.

Net-Ctrl Ltd are soon to run an event at the Gherkin in central London, where we have invited three of our solution providers to present their technologies to you and a few other guests. The next event is scheduled for the 04th November and will begin at 11.30am and finish at 15.00pm. The three solutions providers we have attending this event include Ruckus Wireless, Mobotix Cameras and Barracuda Networks. Ruckus Wireless integrates state of the art capabilities such as wireless meshing, Wi-Fi beam steering, automatic client security, interference avoidance and 802.11n technology. Mobotix Cameras are known as the leading pioneer in network IP camera technology, utilising a decentralised concept, whilst still capturing 3.1 mega-pixel images. Barracuda Networks Inc. offers industry leading products for three distinct markets. They’re the worldwide leader in content security appliances, and have a very strong security heritage. Finally, Barracuda Networks offers world-class solutions for backup and data protection. We will be providing lunch on the day, plus a few drinks after the event in the bar at the top of the tower which provides some great views of London. This provides an ideal opportunity to speak with technology specialists in their given field, and a chance to network with other attendees. I only have a few places left for the day, if you're interested in attending or would like more information please PM me.

All you have to do is attend one of the below events and we'll send you a Filter coffee gift pack from a local roaster! With UCAS noting an increase of 450% in mental health declarations our main focus this month is talking to guest speakers that specialise in safeguarding... This month we'll be talking to The Breck Foundation to hear about how the school's they've worked with have improved their safeguarding processes, implemented change when it comes to protecting their students online and ensured specific protective measures are in place as school's return post Covid. We've also teamed up with Jonathan Taylor; a Covert Internet Investigator in the Metropolitan police for over ten years and Industry renowned consultant to Schools, Colleges and Trusts all over the world to talk about how the ‘new normal’ has also created a new set of threats for our students and staff. Register here Everything's Better Filtered with Jonathan Taylor - https://bit.ly/3whfRNO Safely & Securly with The Breck Foundation - https://bit.ly/3qYt7px

Hi all, I'm looking at running a private LAN party where I work, but upon trying to install/run Steam & Battle.Net on my laptop, it won't allow me to connect or sign in, and in the case of Battle.Net, I can't even install it due to not being able to connect to their servers! We use a Lightspeed filtering system, and the device I'm using has been placed in the bypass list, so I'm not being filtered by that appliance The only next step of filtering would be upstream at our internet provider, does anybody have any info about what is needed to be unblocked to use those services? For reference, the services we'd be trying to use are: Steam Misc games on steam, such as Golf With Your Friends, CS:GO etc Battle.Net Games such as Overwatch, WOW etc Any help would be appreciated!

One of our partners, FireClass, are running a fire safety event in London on the 20th June, and we would like to extend the invitation to EduGeek users. There is a focus on student accommodation, however, most of what will be discussed is relevant for all environments. If the below is of interest - please can you send me a PM by Friday 31st May - or speak to the team at the Edugeek conference. Fire safety is a critical area of concern for companies providing student accommodation. With thousands of students eating, sleeping and socialising in the accommodation, each residence must meet exacting fire safety standards. Fire detection systems must also satisfy the local fire service and university. Does this all sound familiar to you? Be part of our Fire Safety Event and learn from our professionals how to deal with the different requirements and challenges. Agenda: 9:30am: Arrival & Coffee 10.00am: Keynote Presenters • Viewpoint & Case Study from a large Student Accommodation Supplier - The challenges student accommodation presents • Huw Chandler, Risk Engineering Practice Leader, Willis Towers Watson - Latest legal requirements for student accommodation 11.30am: Coffee 11.45am: Presenters from Johnson Controls • Reducing unwanted false alarms – Latest Fire Detection Technology • Cost saving features – Self testing on all sounders & beacons • Homes of Multiple Occupancy – Tailored Cause & Effect Specification • Integration Access & CCTV - Centralized security management for the real-time monitoring and control of alarms and events across multi-sites 12.45pm: Lunch & Networking 14.00pm: Close of expert day We would like to invite you on a flight on the London Eye. Please indicate if you would like to partake so we can ensure the correct allocation of tickets. The number of spaces are limited, so be quick and book your seat now! Your seminar day includes lunch and drinks. To reserve your space at the event please send me a PM or email [email protected] (and don't forget to let us know if you can join us for a flight on the London Eye!)

Net-Ctrl is excited to invite you to an exclusive seminar looking at the use of iPads in education. The event is being run by Square Group, a premium apple reseller, who is very experienced in the education space and bring a wealth of experience to the table. This seminar will be focussing on how the iPad can transform both teaching and learning in the classroom, in a way that improves student engagement and results and is free to attend, all you need to do is follow the registration link below. Net-Ctrl and Ruckus Wireless will also be taking part in the seminar and discussing the wireless side of tablet use in education. What you will learn: • Is your school ready for iPad? • iPad in an hour with David Baugh • iPad success stories • Keeping students safe online • Mobile Device Management • The benefits of iBooks • How to finance your schools' iPad solution When Wednesday 16th May 2012 10:00 - 13:00 Where The Wellcome Trust Conference Centre 183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE For directions please click here. Click here to register. We’re really excited for this event and would like to pass the opportunity to attend to everyone on EduGeek, if you have any questions please send me a PM and I will get an answer across to you as soon as I can.

Hi all, A few months ago Square Group, a premium Apple reseller, ran an event around BYOD in education in relation to the iPad. They have just announced they will be running a second event on the 27th September at the Welcome Trust Conference Centre in London, and another on the 14th November in Derby. The event is free to attend and runs from 09.30-16.00, and will provide a great opportunity to learn more about iPads in the classroom and how they can be managed. We attemded the event last year, and thought it was really worth the visit. If you're interested please click here to view the invitation which will tell you a little more about the event, and also provides the opportunity to register. Net-Ctrl will be sending @Aggy and Stuart White our certified wireless technican along to the event as well, so if you fancy meeting/catching up with either of them come along. Any questions please feel free to ask.

Hi, apologies if this has been discussed before but I couldn’t find anything on the forums. From the beginning of this academic year we have reintroduced a house system into school. The students are receiving lots of points which is great, but the problem for us comes to reporting on the points totals, specifically concerning House events. For example, PE run a sports afternoon with various competitions happening. At the end of the afternoon points are awarded to the individual winners, but we also look at the bigger picture when it comes to overall House performance and reward points accordingly to each house. The problem occurs at this point since there is no House entity within SIMS (that I’m aware of) that we can assign the points to. As a work around for this we have decided to award these performance points to the House Captains so we can run reports on overall House points totals monthly/termly etc, but the issue arises when we come to run individual student/form points totals. I know that we can remove the overall points totals from the House Captains individual points totals by filtering out the House Event Achievement Types to give more accurate results. Though this is a simple solution that requires little effort, this solution isn’t liked by the staff in charge of the House system since its open to human errors. ie when entering the awards, choosing the wrong Achievement Type would mean that the filters wouldn’t remove the points from the reports when being run so would therefore give false points totals for the House Captains. We can't be the only school that has come across this problem, so I was hoping if anyone knew of a more elegant solution to this, or can anyone suggest any alternative methods of storing points? Ideally we would like to remove the link of Event House points to individual students and somehow award them directly to the House, but we’ve been searching unsuccessfully for a way to do this for a while. (One crazy idea was to create a fake student entry per House to award the points to, but I put a stop to that because it would affect the census etc.) Any and all ideas are welcome Cheers guys Jon

Just received an email about this event - see link below, looks interesting with some good speakers listed, anybody planning on attending? London Moodle Conference | Webanywhere

You asked, we listened - and now we've created a Beer & Cheese night specifically for women in Education. Our Sommelier James Kellow joins us to conduct an interactive beer and pie tasting session and we discuss the future of SEL and student safeguarding with our team and existing customers. Know someone who'd love to attend? Forward across the link and drop us a private message with their name and if they attend, we'll send you a £20 Amazon Gift Card! September 29th 17:30 – 19:30 BST Places are limited and only available in the next 24 hours, book now - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ladies-night-back-to-school-beer-cheese-tickets-167307401943

Fancy a night of locally sourced craft beer and pie's delivered straight to your door? Securly are bringing back their infamous Beer & Pie evenings in October, invites are open to Edugeek members only and spaces are extremely limited! Our Sommelier James Kellow joins us to conduct an interactive beer and pie tasting session and we discuss the future of SEL and student safeguarding with our team and existing customers. October 13th 17:30 – 19:30 BST Places are limited, book now - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/back-to-school-pie-pint-tickets-173575267297

Don't get me wrong I've know about the scheduler since XP but I didn't look at it again in Windows 7! It can now send emails... This is super cool because it can now also trigger upon events in the event log, this means you could get a workstation to email you when a disk event occurs. It can also start when a certain network is available, super useful if you have a program that doesn't deal well with being run before the network is established. Does anyone who realized this 4 years ago, have any cool tasks they deploy to workstations? I've had the same one for 8 years that turns off the PCs at 18:30 but that's it!

I am running an event in London with Juniper Networks on the 29th March at Juniper's offices (EC2R 8AY) and would like to invite the Edugeek community to join us. The content is going to be very EDU focused, and we have some great speakers from Juniper Networks talking about the modern day network and the challenges associated to it (full agenda below). This is going to be more of a technical session, but they will be referring to their switching and firewalling platforms. It will also be a great chance to get hands-on with some of their kit, including their new Network Director and Security Director solutions, which look really smart. There is some more information below and on our registration page: Juniper Hands-on Session I really think is going to be a great event, and would really like some of the EduGeek community to join us. Date: 29th March 2017 Time: 10.00-12.30 Location: Juniper Networks. 38 Threadneedle St, London EC2R 8AY Speakers: Stephen Jamieson and Trevor Edwards – Juniper Networks Agenda 10.00 Arrival & Coffee 10.20 Welcome and Introduction 10.30 Meeting the Challenges of Building and Securing a Campus Network 11.00 Juniper Networks Campus Solution Overview. 11.30 Building a manageable Security Model for Education. 12.00 Hands-on Product Demonstrations 12.30 Close & Lunch Followed by refreshments at The Counting House Key session takeaways: • Learn about the architecture required to build an affordable, scalable and highly reliable network. • Address the need for new application models and automation tools • Review traditional perimeter security and how to build a new network that is both open and secure • Learn how to leverage the entire network to manage security policies

Hi all, could anyone tell me if they know a way to enter a search parameter for the "Description" field in the event viewer on Windows Server 2003? I've recently set up auditing of deleted files which seems to be pulling the results up great when you browse through them, but obviously with so many results I need to search, to track down who deleted a particular file I need to search for the file location in the event viewer which is located in the "Description" field - anyone know any way this may be possible? Thanks for any help offered, it is much appreciated! Richard.

With UCAS noting an increase of 450% in mental health declarations, we've teamed up with Jonathan Taylor MSc; a Covert Internet Investigator in the Metropolitan police for over ten years and Industry renowned consultant to Schools, Colleges and Trusts all over the world to bring you the next Everything's Better Filtered. Join Securly to hear about how the ‘new normal’ has also created a new set of threats for our students and staff. *All attendee's receive a Luxury Coffee Gift worth £25* Register here - https://www.bigmarker.com/securly/Everything-s-Better-Filtered-Q3?show_live_page=true